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Filippo Caruso (Casole Bruzio, 24 August 1884 – Rome, 12 September 1979) was an Italian Carabinieri general and Resistance member during World War II.
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Filippo Caruso (Casole Bruzio, 24 August 1884 – Rome, 12 September 1979) was an Italian Carabinieri general and Resistance member during World War II.
Filippo Caruso a adăugat o fotografie
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Biography Caruso was born into a bourgeois family with military and patriotic traditions; some of his ancestors had participated in the Risorgimento. He began his military career in 1905, enlisting in the Royal Italian Army as a second lieutenant in the 44th Infantry Regiment; after attending courses at the Royal Military Academy of Infantry and Cavalry in Modena, he became a career officer in 1909, assigned to the 18th Infantry Regiment, with which he fought in Libya in the Italo-Turkish War (1911–12). After being promoted to lieutenant and returning to Italy, in 1914 he was transferred to the Carabinieri Corps. He participated in the First World War, fighting in the 11th Division on the middle course of the Isonzo and then serving with the 114th Carabinieri Section at the Supreme Command. After promotion captain in 1917, he fought with the 26th Division, and distinguished himself during the advance on Trento and Bolzano following the battle of Vittorio Veneto in October–November 1918. By the end of the war he had been decorated with two bronze medals for military valor. Between December 1918 and July 1919 he was the organizer of the territorial service of the Carabinieri in South Tyrol and later…